9/11Smoking Gun Email:UK TonyBlair's ' blood deal ' with W Bush - Iraq war was forged a YEAR before the invasion

9/11Smoking Gun Email:UK TonyBlair's ' blood deal ' with W Bush - Iraq war was forged a YEAR before the invasion
Blair's 'deal in blood' with George Bush - Iraq war was forged a YEAR before the invasion


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Smoking gun emails reveal Blair's 'deal in blood' with George Bush over Iraq war was forged a YEAR before the invasion had even started

• Leaked White House memo shows former Prime Minister's support for war at summit with U.S. President in 2002
• Bombshell document shows Blair preparing to act as spin doctor for Bush, who was told 'the UK will follow our lead'
• Publicly, Blair still claimed to be looking for diplomatic solution - in direct contrast to email revelations
• New light was shed on Bush-Blair relations by material disclosed by Hillary Clinton at the order of the U.S. courts

By GLEN OWEN and WILLIAM LOWTHER IN WASHINGTON FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

PUBLISHED: 21:00 GMT, 17 October 2015 | UPDATED: 06:15 GMT, 18 October 2015

A bombshell White House memo has revealed for the first time details of the ‘deal in blood’ forged by Tony Blair and George Bush over the Iraq War.

The sensational leak shows that Blair had given an unqualified pledge to sign up to the conflict a year before the invasion started.

It flies in the face of the Prime Minister’s public claims at the time that he was seeking a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

He told voters: ‘We’re not proposing military action’ – in direct contrast to what the secret email now reveals.

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All sewn up: Tony Blair and President George Bush at the infamous 2002 summit at Bush's ranch house in Crawford, Texas, where the two men spoke about invading Iraq

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Bombshell dossier: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, left of Bush, wrote to the President to say the UK 'will be with us'

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The classified document also discloses that Blair agreed to act as a glorified spin doctor for the President by presenting ‘public affairs lines’ to convince a sceptical public that Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction – when none existed.

In return, the President would flatter Blair’s ego and give the impression that Britain was not America’s poodle but an equal partner in the ‘special relationship’.

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